20 January 2024

Nightmare

Sometimes I wake up
Unprepared for my physics
Exam and as the dread
Of failure drips as sweat
Off my brows-

I wake up in relief as 
It was only a dream.

But wait, is it fifteen
Past elven?
I'm already an hour late
To my office.

With the manager's angry
Face in my head.
I run to grab my brush-
Slip off the wet floor-

Get hit in my dizzy head.
The alarm goes then-

The priest calls my name
Aloud at a funeral and
I fail to reach anyone to
Mark my presence.

Soundproof coffins-
What a mess and
This time why the hell
I can't wake up?

Am I really Dead?